Trump isn’t a movement conservative.
He doesn’t believe what he says - he’s more of a populist who tells people what they want to hear.
Being a conservative, is instinct, a healthy skepticism of human nature and a profound distrust of change.
Trump doesn’t seem to embody the philosophy that’s the essence of conservatism.
That said, he doesn’t ridicule or dismiss us and he’s willing to listen.
Which is more than can be said for the GOP establishment that has traditionally treated us as the political equivalent of the “crazy aunt in the basement.”
Trump is many things but we should be under no illusion as conservatives that he is the Second Coming Of Ronald Reagan.
It would be unfair to harbor that expectation of him.
“He doesn’t believe what he says”
There is an you-tube video out of a twenty-five year interview Oprah Winfrey did with Trump. He says the same thing in that interview that he says now.